Aditya Datta spearheaded the formation of the Business Fraternity Diversity Council last fall Aditya Datta (left), Ekow Asomaning (upper right) and Eswar Chelliah (bottom right) are members of Penn State’s new Business Fraternity Diversity Council. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — During a breakfast for Chapel Executive Interns last fall, Aditya Datta, a third-year Paterno Fellow and Schreyer Scholar majoring in economics, pitched the idea of creating the Business Fraternity Diversity Council to Clarence Lang, Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts. As a member and former director of diversity, inclusion and community engagement for the Delta Sigma Pi professional business fraternity, it was important to Datta that the business fraternities at Penn State provide an inclusive culture and reflect the school they serve, he said. Datta, a Lansdale, Pennsylvania, native, said he knew that for this venture to be successful, he would need access to leaders in professional networks and a scalable idea. Lang put Datta in contact with Melissa Landrau Vega, the director of the Multicultural Resource Center, which opened pathways to communicate with Charles Whiteman, the dean of Smeal College of Business, and Olivia Lewis, the director of diversity enhancement in Smeal. “When we came […]